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CVE-2026-64496

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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iio: event: Fix event FIFO reset race

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: event: Fix event FIFO reset race `iio_event_getfd()` creates the event file descriptor with `anon_inode_getfd()`, which allocates a new fd, creates the anonymous file and installs it in the process fd table before returning to the caller. The IIO code resets the event FIFO after `anon_inode_getfd()` has returned, but before `IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL` has copied the fd number to userspace. But since fd tables are shared between threads, another thread can guess the newly allocated fd number and issue a `read()` on it as soon as the fd has been installed. This means the `kfifo_to_user()` in `iio_event_chrdev_read()` can run in parallel with the `kfifo_reset_out()` in `iio_event_getfd()`. The kfifo documentation says that `kfifo_reset_out()` is only safe when it is called from the reader thread and there is only one concurrent reader. Otherwise it is dangerous and must be handled in the same way as `kfifo_reset()`. If that happens, `kfifo_to_user()` can advance the FIFO `out` index based on state from before the reset, after the reset has already moved the `out` index to the current `in` index. That can leave the FIFO with an `out` index past the `in` index. A later `read()` can then see an underflowed FIFO length and copy more data than the event FIFO buffer contains. This can result in an out-of-bounds read and leak adjacent kernel memory to userspace. Move the FIFO reset before `anon_inode_getfd()`. At that point the event fd is marked busy, but the new fd has not been installed yet, so userspace cannot access it while the FIFO is reset.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774affectedgit9dc84ba4be5bbeb29ee49efe6cea2cb32c461424UnavailableNone listed
b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774affectedgitd16a702ca7d29c0b7a9b509339d1b044a1cadb32UnavailableNone listed
b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774affectedgita13ef1adbc62085b21b546b07b0be7e2fbf52150UnavailableNone listed
b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774affectedgit0d4a646d7f87ea3625fafe387043fddc6a2f5e7fUnavailableNone listed
b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774affectedgit72c6aa8e0d74eab91b8694cde97dec088c248feeUnavailableNone listed
b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774affectedgit9edefd4c56bee3fe331e0355d1f10a533134999dUnavailableNone listed
b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774affectedgitf187dc5a4c4846ffa07d9bda6e760837ed005574UnavailableNone listed
b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774affectedgitaf791d295737ea6b6ff2c8d8488462a49c14af01UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
3.15affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver3.15UnavailableNone listed
5.10.261unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.212unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.178unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.145unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.96unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.39unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.1.4unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.1.*None listed
7.2unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed